Great Expectations Plot Development Exposition: The setting of the begginning this story takes place in a small village located on some marshes in England. The author is trying to establish a tone of sorrow and darkness. It is in a graveyard where Pip's dead parents and siblings lie. The story states this when it says, "At such a ... marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing over the sea..." (Great Expectations, Chapter 1, page 1 and 2) This quote tells us some of the land features as well as the tone of dark a...

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... loose. We are suspicious: this is irony, not piety. As he did in his opening monologue, Tom contrasts his surroundings with the occurrences on the great world stage. He reads of Franco's fascist triumphs, thinks of Berchtesgaden, Chamberlain, and Guernica, and compares it to a gloomy, sticky calm he sees ... he rescues the maiden from a lifetime of domestic drudgery. An article of glass miraculously makes the match and leads to everlasting happiness. The Glass Menagerie is a Cinderella story that doesn't work. Laura, at Amanda's behest, wishes on the "little silver slipper of a moon," ...

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• Grade Level: High School